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Surgery May Be Solution For Sweaty Palms

Posting Date: 08/07/2001

He describes the surgery: "The procedure involved going in under the arm, deflating one lung at a time to reach the nerve with two 12-inch long, quarter-inch diameter rods. One was a microwave and one was a camera to locate the sympathetic nerve and burn it with the microwave at 80 degrees Celsius for thirty seconds between the second and third rib.

"The procedure lasts less than an hour but the results depend upon where the nerve is burned. My wife's hands do not sweat at all now. Her feet were corrected by about 50 per cent. The lower the nerve is burned the better the correction for sweat on the feet, but side effects could include paralyzed face muscles and sagging eyes. Your readers may find this Web site of interest: www.endoscopic-surgery.com/."

Instead of surgery, some physicians are now achieving good results by injecting botulinum toxin A into the skin. This also seems to work to cut excessive sweating from hands, feet or underarms.

Surgery is a drastic solution for sweaty palms. But if other methods do not work, it may be worth the risk and expense.